# Keep Your Identity Small

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Paul Graham]]
- Full Title: Keep Your Identity Small
- Category: #articles
- URL: http://paulgraham.com/identity.html

## Highlights
- Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions.
- I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan.
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